"Swan Hunter" lyrics - BIG BIG TRAIN

As a kid, I'd see the ships slowly taking shape
Nightshift riveters and caulkers keeping us awake
My dad worked at Swan, in the Neptune Yard
Worked the slipways in all weather, 7:30 start

[Chorus:]
Call me up, boy
Sit you down by the fireside
Spend some time

All the pride, boy
And the tears
Tears enough to fill the Tyne

Gleaming vessels filling up the sky
Dwarfing rows of terraced houses larger than life
Tell me, what do you do when what you did is gone?
No one throwing you a lifeline, how do you carry on?

[Chorus:]
Call me up, boy (Call me up)
Sit you down by the fireside (Sit you down)
Spend some time (Time)

And he said: "All the pride, boy (All the pride)
And the tears (And the tears)
Tears enough to fill the Tyne (The Tyne)"

[Instrumental break]

[Bridge:]
So much larger than life
From father to son
We carry it on

It isn't going change the world
It isn't going to change the past
'Cause some things are meant to last

So much larger than life
From father to son
We carry it on

[Chorus:]
Call me up, boy
Sit you down by the fireside
Spend some time

All the pride, boy
And the tears
Tears enough to fill the Tyne (Fill the Tyne)

[Post-Chorus:]
Fill the Tyne
The Tyne!

[Instrumental break]

[Outro:]
Call me up, boy
Call me up, boy
Call me up, boy